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France is boosting security at Jewish and other religious sites after blanks were fired at a
synagogue and police accused a suspected cell of radical Islamists of ties to a grenade attack on a
kosher grocery.

President Francois Hollande sought yesterday to allay tensions between Jews and Muslims after a
recent series of violent incidents in the country.

Hollande singled out hateful extremists for criticism and urged respect for all religions in a
country that is officially secular but that has Western Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim
communities.